How do you find players?

I've been finding it difficult to find a means to share my forums and find new players ever since some of the big-name free resource sites have closed down. Is anyone else experiencing this? Or am I just not acquainted with the area of forums yet?

 

I used to just go site to site and advertise. Now that I only run Discord RPs, I rely on word of mouth. I tell my friends, they tell theirs, etc.